Domestic newsreels of different years (1935-1961)

Geologists pan for gold on the river bank.

A Tu-104 passenger plane in flight in the second half of the 1950s.

Passengers are chatting and reading the press in the cabin.

A passenger's face is visible through the window.

The plane of the plane during flight.

Construction of wooden barracks in a workers' settlement in winter.

Signs for future avenues and streets.

Surveyors survey the area at the site of the future city.

View of a quarry.

Blasting frozen soil.

View of part of a diamond mine.

Mine managers and geologists discuss a production issue.

The men's faces during the discussion.

One of the managers is holding a rock sample and examining it.

Diamond chips.

The schooner "Zarya" at the pier in Turku in 1956. View of a part of the schooner's deck (from above).

The name of the vessel is on board.

Checking the schooner's radar.

Adjusting the compass.

The navigator plots a course on the chart.

The captain's face.

Setting the sails after leaving the port.

A schooner is under full sail, the captain looks through binoculars.

Photograph of Yuri Gagarin in the spacecraft cabin.

General Designer S.P. Korolev negotiates with Gagarin before takeoff on April 12, 1961. Gagarin in the spacecraft cabin.

The launch of the Vostok-1 spacecraft.

Female first aid workers during a chemical defense training session in conditions close to combat.

Providing aid to the simulated wounded.

Manual evacuation of the simulated wounded to the rear.

The simulated wounded is placed on a stretcher.

People buy newspapers at a street kiosk.

People sit on benches and look through the eyepieces of telescopes in anticipation of the flight of an artificial Earth satellite in 1957. Young Pioneers at a radio receiver.

Girls observe the night sky through binoculars.

A passenger paddle steamer travels along a river.

A radio amateur receives a signal at home with his family.

A river landscape at sunset.

Preparing sound recording equipment for work.

Cars drive down the street.

A radio operator transmits a Morse code radiogram.

Panorama of the Kopetdag Mountains.

Scientists conduct field research in the Kopetdag foothills before the solar eclipse of June 20, 1955. Preparing the apparatus and telescope for photography.

Expedition members work with the equipment.

One of the scientists invites local residents to look through the telescope.

An elderly Turkmen man looks through the telescope.

Faces of local residents.

A girl looks through the telescope.

Expedition members observe the sun before the eclipse.

Expedition members and local residents, having climbed into the backs and cabins of trucks, prepare to observe the solar eclipse through dark glass.

Cameramen are filming.

A telegraph operator at a field telegraph apparatus.

A member of the expedition looks through the eyepiece of the telescope.

The progress of the solar eclipse.

Local residents observe the solar eclipse through dark glass.

An astronomer demonstrates a solar eclipse model to local residents.

Scientists in a tent processing data.

A total solar eclipse.

Astronomers observe the solar eclipse through telescopes with special filters.

The campsite of the astronomical expedition.